Curves to the Apple

Curves to the Apple
Author: Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811216739

Three pivotal works conceived by the avant-garde poet as a trilogy and now together in one volume at last.

Driven to Abstraction

Driven to Abstraction
Author: Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811218795

A new poetry collection of startling beauty and thought by a great American poet.

S Curves

S Curves
Author: Shane Glines
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780978890490

From Strength to Strength

From Strength to Strength
Author: Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0593191498

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful it is when it occurs. What can we do, starting now, to make our older years a time of happiness, purpose, and yes, success? At the height of his career at the age of 50, Arthur Brooks embarked on a seven-year journey to discover how to transform his future from one of disappointment over waning abilities into an opportunity for progress. From Strength to Strength is the result, a practical roadmap for the rest of your life. Drawing on social science, philosophy, biography, theology, and eastern wisdom, as well as dozens of interviews with everyday men and women, Brooks shows us that true life success is well within our reach. By refocusing on certain priorities and habits that anyone can learn, such as deep wisdom, detachment from empty rewards, connection and service to others, and spiritual progress, we can set ourselves up for increased happiness. Read this book and you, too, can go from strength to strength.

Apples

Apples
Author: Roger Yepsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780393315677

Ninety North American apples, described in words and identified in the author's beautiful and precise watercolors. In this charming and informative book, Roger Yepsen explores the world of apples throughout history and in the present. Each featured apple is remarkably distinctive in taste, texture, aroma, and appearance. They range from the unusual, like the Knobbed Russet and Hubbardston Nonesuch, to apples everyone has tasted such as Red Delicious and Granny Smith. Also included are recipes for making everything from apple leather to apple brandy, as well as pies, sauces, ciders, and wines; sources for ordering apples, trees, cider, wine, or supplies; and tips on creating and growing new varieties.

Hairpin Curves

Hairpin Curves
Author: Elia Winters
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488076308

“RITA award winner Winters crafts an insightful second-chance romance that works all the better for the wish fulfilment of its premise.” —Publishers Weekly Megan Harris had hopes of seeing the world, but at twenty-five she’s never even left Florida. Now a wedding invitation lures her to Quebec . . . in February. When her ex-friend Scarlett offers to be her plus-one (yeah, that’s a whole story) and suggests they turn the journey into an epic road trip, Megan reluctantly agrees to the biggest adventure of her life. A week together in a car is a surefire way to kill a crush, and Scarlett Andrews has had a big one on Megan for years. The important thing is fixing their friendship. As the miles roll away, what starts as harmless road-trip games and rest-stop dares escalates into something like intimacy. And when a surprise snowstorm forces Megan and Scarlett to hunker down without the open road as distraction, they’ve got a bigger challenge than making it to the church on time: facing the true nature of their feelings for each other.

Girls Get Curves

Girls Get Curves
Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1101644400

New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar makes it a breeze to excel in high school geometry! Hollywood actress and math whiz Danica McKellar has completely shattered the “math nerd” stereotype. For years, she’s been showing girls how to feel confident and ace their math classes—with style! With Girls Get Curves, she applies her winning techniques to high school geometry, giving readers the tools they need to feel great and totally “get” everything from congruent triangles to theorems, and more. Inside you’ll find: • Time-saving tips and tricks for homework and tests • Illuminating practice problems (and proofs!) with detailed solutions • Totally relateable real-world examples • True stories from Danica’s own life as an actress and math student • A Troubleshooting Guide, for getting unstuck during even the trickiest proofs! With Danica as a coach, girls everywhere can stop hiding from their homework and watch their scores rise!

The Reproduction of Profiles

The Reproduction of Profiles
Author: Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1987
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811210454

The remarkable prose poems in Rosmarie Waldrop's 'The Reproduction of Profiles' prove that startling new insights are possible when philosophical formulations are turned on their heads.

The Nick of Time

The Nick of Time
Author: Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811230546

A philosophical tour de force melding astrophysics and grief by the American maestra of the prose poem “If memory serves, it was five years ago that yours began to refuse,” Rosmarie Waldrop writes to her husband in The Nick of Time. “Does it feel like crossing from an open field into the woods, the sunlight suddenly switched off? Or like a roof without edge or frame, pushed sideways in time?” Ten years in the making, Waldrop’s phenomenally beautiful new collection explores the felt nature of existence as well as gravity and velocity, the second hemisphere of time, mortality and aging, language and immigration, a Chinese primer, the artist Hannah Höch, and dwarf stars. Of one sequence, “White Is a Color,” first published as a chapbook, the Irish poet Billy Mills wrote, “In what must be less than 1000 words, Waldrop says more about the human condition and how we explore it through words than most of us would manage in a thousand pages.” Love blooms in the cut, in the gap, in the nick between memory and thought, sentence and experience. Like the late work of Cézanne, Waldrop’s art has found a new way of seeing and thinking that “vibrates on multiple registers through endless, restless exploration” (citation for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize).

Atlas of the Four-Bar Linkage

Atlas of the Four-Bar Linkage
Author: Philip Todd
Publisher: Saltire Software, Incorporated
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2014-08-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781882564293

For many years, the coupler-curve atlas by Hrones and Nelson has been a valuable aid for designing four-bar linkages. Today, computers can quickly and accurately analyze displacement, velocity, and acceleration of the coupler point which traces the curve. However, even in the age of computers, an atlas is unsurpassed as a way to see relationships among these curves and choose the best for a particular design by thumbing through paper copies rather than looking at them individually or even in small groups on a computer screen. This atlas of four-bar linkage coupler-curves facilitates quick visual comparisons. The atlas aids conceptual design by allowing easy perusal of a large number of curves produced by the following linkage categories: Crank Rocker, Double Crank, Crank Slider and Inverted Crank Slider. When an acceptable design is found, the curve can be analyzed and the linkage parameters varied to improve performance by using the appropriate computer software.